Evolution in Science, Philosophy, and Art: Popular Lectures and Discussions Before the Brooklyn Ethical AssociationD. Appleton, 1891 - 475 pages |
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agnosticism ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE animals appears architecture artist Asa Gray atoms beauty believe body botany called cause century changes chemical chemistry color conception consciousness correlation Darwin discovery doctrine of evolution electricity elements ence environment Ernst Haeckel existence experience expression fact force Goethe Gothic architecture Greece Greek Haeckel Herbert Spencer human hydrogen idea ideal individual influence Kant knowledge known lecture light living matter ment mental method mind modern monism moral motion natural selection never noumenon object observation optics organic origin oxygen painting perfect phenomena philosophy physical plants Praxiteles present principle produced Prof progress protoplasm psychical race relation relativity of knowledge religion result retina Roman Romanesque scientific scientific method sculpture seems sensation sense soul species structure substance theory things thought tion true truth universal unknowable Wallace whole
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Page 235 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 165 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 214 - See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Page 164 - I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle...
Page 222 - ... if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, and if one member be honored, then all the members rejoice with it.
Page 114 - Indeed the domain of the senses in Nature is almost infinitely small in comparison with the vast region accessible to thought which lies beyond them. From a few observations of a comet when it comes within the range of his telescope, an astronomer can calculate its path in regions which no telescope can reach; and in like manner, by means of data furnished in the narrow world of the senses, we can make ourselves at home in other and wider worlds, which can be traversed by the intellect alone.
Page 102 - Whence it is manifest that a thing is perfectly known only when it is in all respects like certain things previously observed; that in proportion to the number of respects in which it is unlike them, is the extent to which it is unknown; and that hence when it has absolutely no attribute in common with anything else, it must be absolutely beyond the bounds of knowledge.
Page 383 - In proportion to the kingliness and force of any personality, the expression either of its joy or suffering becomes measured, chastened, calm, and capable of interpretation only by the majesty of ordered, beautiful, and worded sound. Exactly in proportion to the degree in which we become narrow in the cause and conception of our passions, incontinent in the utterance of them, feeble of perseverance in them, sullied or shameful in the indulgence of them, their expression by musical...
Page 272 - ... the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
Page 108 - In plants the albuminous and amylaceous matters which form the substance of the embryo, give origin here to a preponderance of chlorophyll and there to a preponderance of cellulose. Over the parts that are becoming leaf-surfaces, certain of the materials are metamorphosed into wax. In this place starch passes into one of its isomeric equivalents, sugar; and in that place into another of its isomeric equivalents, gum. By secondary change some of the cellulose is modified into wood ; while some of...